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The proximate determinants of educational homogamy: the effects of first marriage, marital dissolution, remarriage, and educational upgrading. [PDF]

Demography, 2012
Schwartz CR, Mare RD.
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New Evidence on the Causes of Educational Homogamy [PDF]

, 2010
Educational homogamy is an important but poorly understood source of inequality. This paper analyzes a group of men and women who do not meet their spouses in school, are not sorted by education at work, and have no financial incentives to marry educated
Bruze, Gustaf
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Differences in occupational homogamy by race, ethnicity, and national origin: A social mobility strategy for Asian Americans

Demographic Research, 2023
Background: Rising median age at marriage and increasing lifestyle differentials across occupations suggest that occupations increasingly offer important signals of the economic and cultural resources of potential spouses.
Kate Choi, Yue Qian
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Meeting online or offline? Patterns and trends for co-resident couples in early 21st century Britain [PDF]

, 2020
Data from the 2010-12 National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (NATSAL-3) are used to document trends and patterns in where co-resident couples in Britain first met, focusing specifically on the rapid rise of meeting online, which both echoes ...
Lampard, Richard
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Changing educational homogamy: shifting preferences or evolving educational distribution?

Journal of Demographic Economics, 2022
AbstractWe study changes in educational homogamy in the US and four European countries over the decade covering the Great Recession. The marital preferences identified point to the widening of the social gap between different educational groups since these preferences have increased the inclination of the individuals to match with others of similar ...
Anna Naszodi, Francisco Mendonca
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Trends in the association between educational assortative mating, infant and child mortality in Nigeria

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Existing knowledge has established the connection between maternal education and child survival, but little is known about how educational assortative mating (EAM), relates to childhood mortality.
Tolulope Ariyo, Quanbao Jiang
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Couples’ places of meeting in late 20th century Britain: class, continuity and change [PDF]

, 2007
This article examines couples’ places or contexts of meeting in the second half of the 20th century in Great Britain, utilizing a typology developed by Bozon and Héran.
Lampard, Richard
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Homogamy in socio-economic background and education, and the dissolution of cohabiting unions

Demographic Research, 2014
Background: Despite the increasing prevalence of cohabitation, knowledge of how socio-economic homogamy affects the stability of cohabiting unions is scant.
Elina Mäenpää, Marika Jalovaara
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Educational assortative mating in Italy: what can Gini’s homogamy index still say? [PDF]

, 2015
The homogamy index proposed by Gini is applied to describe the changes occurred in marital choice - across time and regions in Italy. The relevant increase in education by women has provoked an increase in the number of homogamous couples and in an ...
DE ROSE, Alessandra, Fraboni, R.
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Educational heterogamy during the early phase of the educational expansion: Results from the university town of Tartu, Estonia in the late 19th century

Demographic Research, 2020
Background: From a historical perspective, the transition from a pre-industrial to a modern society is associated with increasing social status heterogamy.
Martin Klesment, Hannaliis Jaadla, Mark Gortfelder   +2 more
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